"The ways sexuality plays out in political economies is central. And Cambodia's political economy is organized around this notion of family. So lesbianism is actually perceived as being threatening to a degree that it would have not been, for example, under socialist East Germany. But it's one of the essential issues of women's freedom: Do you get to do want you want to do with your body? Not if you don't know what your body is for."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Anne Elizabeth Moore

#East Germany Quotes #Play Quotes #Issues Quotes

“... I'm the fortieth-ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what! What if someday she lets me kiss each one of her freckles again? She has like a million. But every one of them means something to me. Isn't this how people used to fall in love? I know we're living in Rubenstein's America, like you keep saying. But doesn't that just make us even more responsible for each other's fates? I mean, what if Eunice and I just said no to all this. To this bar. To this FACing. The two of us. What if we just went home and read books to each other?”
“Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking.”
“A bunch of six nicer people, I couldnâ€™t be more fortunate to call my family â€” from Lee Pace, who is so dear. When I first saw him, I said heâ€™s like a Gary Cooper. Heâ€™s bashful, heâ€™s shy, heâ€™s sensitive, heâ€™s a great actor, heâ€™s beautiful, heâ€™s delicious.”
“Always run after opportunities to create peace between people, to find ways to bridge differences, please. Because as long as one person continues to feel separationâ€¦ â€¦we'll all still feel it. Close the space between you and someone today. Seeing their essential goodness helps a lot.”

Source : FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from May 24, 2011
“What were you going to do tonight?" "I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff." "Who's that?" "A dead Russian.”
“No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.”

Source : Epitaph he made for himself. "Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age". Book by Will Durant, 2001.
“Work is the price which is paid for reputation.”
“Health and disease don't just happen to us. They are active processes issuing from inner harmony or disharmony, profoundly affected by our states of consciousness, our ability or inability to flow with experience. This recognition carries with it implicit responsibility and opportunity.”

Source : Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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